Yumex sits and stares at me if I log in as me. I am not prompted for a password. The only feedback it gives is:

Quote:

Authentication is required for Yum Extender to handle packages on the system

...and it just sits there. I presume it has something to do with polkit. I have polkit-kde installed as I am using KDE, but I can't find any information on configuring polkit.

What do I need to do next?

TIA.

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This might be related: when I opened Dolphin to access a slave drive that I haven't mounted to the system, I get, "An error occurred while accessing '3tb', the system responded: An unspecified error has occurred: Not authorized to perform operation." I was able to do this through Dolphin a couple days ago. I have since updated the system.

The non-standard settings (in colour) areuse_sudo to start the yum backend using sudo, which requires that the user not be prompted for a password when using sudo. (This is not a normal setting, nor is it recommended unless you really check you system integrity daily.)
The two options in red are because this is a from my Rawhide installation, and weird things often appear in the rawhide repositories.